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Relating to the morning, or to matins; matutinal.

A reception, or a musical or dramatic entertainment, held in the daytime. See SoirÉe.

A round-bottomed glass flask having a long neck; a bolthead.

See Matress.

The mother and ruler of a family or of her descendants; a ruler by maternal right.

Of or pertaining to a matriarch; governed by a matriarch.

The office or jurisdiction of a matriarch; a matriarchal form of government.

See Matrix.

Of or pertaining to matricide.

The murder of a mother by her son or daughter.

larly in a college or university, by enrolling the name in a register. In discovering and matriculating the arms of commissaries from North America. Sir W. Scott.

The act or process of matriculating; the state of being matriculated.

Matrimony. [Obs.]

Of or pertaining to marriage; derived from marriage; connubial; nuptial; hymeneal; as, matrimonial rights or duties. If he relied upon that title, he could be but a king at courtesy, and have rather a matrimonial than a regal power. Bacon.

In a matrimonial manner.

Matrimonial. [R.] Milton.

lock. If either of you know any impediment, why ye may not be lawfully joined together in matrimony, ye do now confessit. Book of Com. Prayer (Eng. Ed. )

The womb. All that openeth the matrix is mine. Ex. xxxiv. 19.

as borne children; a woman of staid or motherly manners. Your wives, your daughters, Your matrons, and your maids. Shak. Grave from her cradle, insomuch that she was a matron before she was a mother. Fuller.

The state of a matron.